Santa Clara, Calif.-based Shockwave Medical Inc. is working to build its business around the use of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in multiple arterial indications. Lithotripsy has been used to destroy kidney stones for decades, but now Shockwave's system is applying that technology to indications including coronary artery disease (CAD), above-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD) and below-the-knee PAD that each require a specific catheter. Read More
